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PIDSC Young Investigator Award
SNMMI symposium and competition, in association with the Computer and Instrumentation Council, for the best scientific abstracts on computer and instrumentation nuclear medicine. The objectives of the award are to identify promising young investigators working in computer and instrumentation nuclear medicine. To be considered, submitting authors must check the designated box (Consider for YI award?) during their online abstract submissions for the SNMMI Annual Meeting.
Only abstracts submitted to categories within the Instrumentation & Data Analysis track will be considered for the ERF PIDSC Young Investigator Award Symposium.
- All applicants must be currently enrolled or within five (5) years of a completed certified training program.
- All former first prize winners are ineligible.
- Abstracts must be submitted to one of the instrumentation & data analysis track.
- All applicants must choose "Oral" as the Presentation Type.
Monetary prizes are offered for the above award in the following amounts:
- 1st Prize: $500
- 2nd Prize: $300
- 3rd Prize: $200
2023 PIDSC Young Investigator Award Winners
First Place
First author: Tiantian Li
Second Place
Graph-based explanations of tau forecasting for Alzheimer’s disease using graph neural networks
First author: Vibha Balaji
Third Place
First author: Zitong Yu
Honorable Mention
Performance Evaluation of SIAT bPET: an MRI Compatible Brain PET Insert
First Author: Zhonghua Kuang
Generalizing Emission Image Denoising Neural Networks through Score-based Approach
First Author: Sangjin Bae
Self-supervised PET image denoising using a neighbor-to-neighbor network
First Author: Tzu-An Song
Past PIDSC Young Investigator Award Winners